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Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more! Founding Director: Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social

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An Evening of Poetry with Sarah Stewart | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening of Poetry with Sarah Stewart today.

Mentee Sarah Stewart will be launching her debut in Edinburgh next month: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @tapsalteerie.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

15.02.2026 17:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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V glad to have a poem in the latest issue of Gutter! ๐Ÿคฉ

18.02.2026 10:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One review and two poems in Tears in the Fence 83 I usually post on this blog to alert people to the fact that Iโ€™ve published a poem or two in Tears in the Fence or โ€“ more recently โ€“ an anno...

Pleased to say I have 2 new poems and a review of 3 books by Tim Allen in TEARS IN THE FENCE no. 83. @tearsinthefence.bsky.social I write about them here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-...

18.02.2026 09:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next Thursday 26th February at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street we launch Glasgow Makar Jim Carruthโ€™s novel-in-verse Knockan! Please join us in this celebration and book your tickets via the link below. We look forward to seeing you there! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰

www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

18.02.2026 10:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Book cover shows the author, Gustaf Sobin, at his writing desk.

Book cover shows the author, Gustaf Sobin, at his writing desk.

And now for a new book. Just out here, although we don't actually have physical copies yet, is Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems, all 738-pages, in both paperback and hardcover editions. In the UK we can supply from stock (once we have some, which will be next week.)
www.shearsman.com/store/Gustaf...

17.09.2025 18:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This time last year I discovered Kenny Knight and read his previous with @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social, warming to his candid realism and delightful imaginative tangents. The poetry here reflects even more on experiences of isolation, loss and constraint while escaping in glorious other worlds

22.09.2025 15:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ian Seed - Forgetfulness Published 2026. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, ยฃ10.95 / $18 ISBN 9781837380114 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .] In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness move...

โ€ฆIt is a collection which seeks to re-construct & re-inhabit the past through the truths of imagination & fiction, as well as the storytelling of remembrance. Throughout these pages, the end is uncertain, forever in the making, & only possibly true.

Order here:

www.shearsman.com/store/Ian-Se...

11.02.2026 11:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Now available: @ianseedauthor.bsky.socialโ€™s
Forgetfulness, from Shearsman Books.

In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, & finally to a series of splintered memoriesโ€ฆ.

11.02.2026 11:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Books as Art: walking, making, thinking in pages Visit Books as Art, an artistsโ€™ books exhibition on show on the Mezzanine at Central Library until 28 February 2026 There is a peculiar intimacy to artistsโ€™ books. They ask to be handled, unfโ€ฆ

Discover books as art - walking, making, thinking in pages - in a recent blog post and in a wonderful exhibition of #ArtistsBooks from the collections of the #ArtAndDesignLibrary.
The exhibition is on show Edinburgh Central Library until 28 February - don't miss it!
zurl.co/XdjsM

11.02.2026 10:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dripping with HONEY๐Ÿฏ, this episode features Ukrainian Honey Cake & weโ€™ve been busy bees combing books for honey references, including poems by Victoria Adukwei Bulley & SA Whitley & Andrew Meehan's novel Best Friends.
Link to listen in bio, available wherever you listen to your podcasts ๐Ÿ’Œ๐Ÿฝ๏ธโœŒ๐Ÿป๐Ÿฏ

11.02.2026 11:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Absolutely delighted to have a piece of my work grace the front cover of this beauty "Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics" ed. @brunoministro.bsky.social Hardback, April2026, Edinburgh University Press. Thank you Bruno ๐Ÿ™ : edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transfo...

10.02.2026 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 63 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dwell Time by Taylor Strickland - Tapsalteerie Dwell Time, the full-length debut collection from award-winning poet Taylor Strickland, begins from the idea that โ€˜dwellingโ€™ requires both place and the experience of โ€˜being-in-the-worldโ€™. In taking u...

Order here: www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/dwel...

11.02.2026 10:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In taking us from the US to Scotland to Portugal, Strickland interrogates this central notion, along with ideas of non-place and environment, to explore our contemporary experience of love, language, technology, and spirituality.

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11.02.2026 10:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dwell Time, the full-length debut collection from award-winning poet Taylor Strickland, begins from the idea that โ€˜dwellingโ€™ requires both place and the experience of โ€˜being-in-the-worldโ€™.

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@taylor-strickland.bsky.social

11.02.2026 10:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
POETRY WITH TAPSALTEERIE 
celebrating new books from
SARAH STEWART | TAYLOR STRICKLAND | STEWART SANDERSON

Book covers shown: 
DWELL TIME, by Taylor Strickland
DEVOUR EVERYTHING, by Sarah Stewart
WEATHER SHAKER, by Stewart Sanderson

POETRY WITH TAPSALTEERIE celebrating new books from SARAH STEWART | TAYLOR STRICKLAND | STEWART SANDERSON Book covers shown: DWELL TIME, by Taylor Strickland DEVOUR EVERYTHING, by Sarah Stewart WEATHER SHAKER, by Stewart Sanderson

Poetry with Tapsalteerie
5 March @lighthousebks.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Tickets ยฃ4

Join Sarah Stewart, @taylor-strickland.bsky.social & Stewart Sanderson for an evening of #poetry & discussion about their new collections from @tapsalteerie.bsky.social
lighthousebookshop.com/events/tapsa...

07.02.2026 17:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Devour Everything by Sarah Stewart (pre-order) - Tapsalteerie "Sumptuous, lyrical, and downright gorgeous throughout" - Jane McKie

www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/devo...

11.02.2026 10:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ Ranging from New York to small-town Aberdeenshire, from pop culture to Norse Valkyries, and wrestling with issues of motherhood, memory and loss, Sarah Stewart's deftly illuminating debut collection reminds us that as humans "we are animals / and our bodies remember things." โ€ฆ

11.02.2026 10:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We are excited to announce that preorders for Sarah Stewart's Devour Everything are open!

*Order now for delivery on or around the publication date of 01 March 2026*

Devour Everything is a love letter to heroic failure, to creation in the face of destruction, to the mundane made sacredโ€ฆ.

11.02.2026 10:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hello lovely book people.

Bluemoose will be attending The London Book Fair for the first time with our own piece of Indy Prime Real Estate - And a chair.

STAND NUMBER: 6G28

From Hebden Bridge to Hollywood via Heckmondwike.

Marvelous!

@thebookseller.com

10.02.2026 14:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 52 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Attila Jรณzsef - The Song of the Cosmos: Selected Poems Translated from Hungarian by รgnes Lehรณczky & Adam Piette. Bilingual edition. Introductions and afterwords by รgnes Lehรณczky, George Szirtes, Gyรถrgy Tverdota, Aranka Kemรฉny & Adam Piette. Illustration...

Read more and pick up your copy here: www.shearsman.com/store/Attila...

11.02.2026 10:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jรณzsef lived a poverty-stricken, passionate and unstable life as a wanderer, a bohemian, a poet, a thinker, a non-conformist, a vagabond and a lover till his untimely death by suicide, struck by a train, in Balatonszรกrszรณ on Lake Balaton, aged only 32. โ€ฆ

11.02.2026 10:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

These translations by Piette and Lehรณczky form a five-year long project with an ambition to translate a significant selection of the poems of the modernist, socialist, working-class Hungarian poet, Attila Jรณzsef (1905-1937). โ€ฆ.

11.02.2026 10:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Now available from Shearsman: Attila Jรณzsef - The Song of the Cosmos: Selected Poems, translated from Hungarian by รgnes Lehรณczky & Adam Piette. Bilingual edition. Intros & afterwords by รgnes Lehรณczky, George Szirtes, Gyรถrgy Tverdota, Aranka Kemรฉny & Adam Piette. Illustrations by Gyรถrgy Bรฉkeffi. โ€ฆ.

11.02.2026 10:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics

โ€œItโ€™s Fine: An Ecopoetics of Exhaustion in Weather Writingโ€ โ€” my chapter in โ€œTransformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics" ed. @brunoministro.bsky.social April2026, Edinburgh University Press edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transfo...

11.02.2026 06:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#GetKeshed in Glasgae.

10.02.2026 23:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weโ€™re back! Our first new episode for the year is out Tuesday & every week (hopefully ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿป) for the rest of 2026.
Weโ€™re hyped for this yearโ€™s LTEB; weโ€™re hoping weโ€™ve found the right balance within the format now & canโ€™t wait to listen & come to the live events weโ€™re planning.
Colin & Claire xoxo โค๏ธ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿฝ๏ธโœŒ๐Ÿป

25.01.2026 22:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New Year New Look for LTEB! Our 1st episode of 2026 is RHUBARB all the way as we discuss gorgeous rhubarb tinged texts by Jennifer Moxley and Annie Johnson.
Links to listen in bio, but available wherever you listen to your podcasts ๐ŸŽง๐Ÿฝ๏ธโœŒ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“š
โ€ฆ& whatโ€™s your favourite rhubarby dish?

27.01.2026 13:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Our most lenticular episode to date is out now, LENTIL SOUP ๐Ÿฅฃ
We discuss poetry by both Zharad & Maria Sledmere, & an extract from a short story by David Toulmin.
Link in bio to listen, but available wherever you listen to your podcasts ๐Ÿฝ๏ธโค๏ธโœŒ๐Ÿป
Whatโ€™s your secret to a good bowl of lentil soup?๐Ÿง

05.02.2026 14:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'Multiple Joyce: 100 short essays about James Joyce's cultural legacy' (2022). Published to mark the centenary of the publication of Ulysses on 2/2/22. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/mult...

02.02.2026 08:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

FINAL CALL FOR KESHED ONLINE LAUNCH TOMORROW.

Anyone wants adding to the zoom invite list for the event online with @davidcollard.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social pls email GetKeshed@gmail.com ASAP. I'm gonna check it one more time after work so get em in quick if you've not got one yet.

04.02.2026 08:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1